The Sun. — London, England, 1818-02-13 00:00:00

THE CoVNTRY: A pretstWe of Temporary matter has prevented, for ,vthe time, our -noticing - the contents - of Psto- VIN'CiAL iiCCording to our usual plan. We cannot, however., 'ct!Sunse this featnee of our Paper mote properly flt4n by the followin Ex tract from The (Dublin) Correspdndent of rill. Olt inst. as it heirs is milting reference to the subject of the Deism* of W...dnesday last in tlie Howse 'of Constcons, and pointedly exposes the gross folly, incntts;stency, and rancour of Me Opposition Writers and Orators, within doors and without : " The Snspensioa Act was paased to prevent the Insurrectionary [tiny:anent into Which,the po pnlace, 'and some of, the classes itnmediatel3i above them in society,. were thrown, from being hurried. into the ektrette attempt to overthrow the Go a-elfin-tent., anti commit the country to revolution. This t , uidency iii thedistemorred part of the public towatds open violence and uproar was intercept ed; .before it had reached its crisis of violence and fury, by means of the . measureS Whith were pursued by the Ministers. Now, the very success of those measures is attempted to. be turned against its authors ; and the Ministers are re proached, because that general violence and re t'stance to the laws and Government had not dis played themsetves„ which the Administration en deavOuted,. to suppress, and did 'suppress, It is curious also to see how little the opponents of the Ministry affect to respect the informations trans mitted to Government by the Magistrates. Upon these informatlous the Government founded the precautionary proceedings whirl) were resorted to fur the public safety. Suppose the Government had disregarded those informations, as the Oppo sition Speakers now tell us they otte,ht, and that the insurgents, who fired upon the King's troops, and pot the constables to death, had executed their attempt with success--and that all the mobs and crowds, ermed and unarmed, blanketted and tinklanketted, had burst forth from their attitude of menace, to realize the Speocean system of equal property, what would the Opposition have said ? What would they have demanded for a Ministry, who would not he advised by the infor mations of Magistrates ?—who disowned all ad s-ice—who repelled all timely warning of the evil that was comina, and 'who preferred to slumber in stupid confidence upon their posts, to watch ing like honest men, and acting like wise men Impeachment and the scaffold would have been the cry—and, in such a case, it might not want the Sanction of ietributive justice. " There has been a great deal said about the proposed Act of Indemnity. The Opposition are desirous to hear uiva voce evidence, and to exa mine papers and documents, previous to touchtiug l i upon indemnity. We only beg to know whether they sincerely believe, that if all those who gave secret information respecting the treasonable de signs that were in agitation in the North of Eng land were proclaimed, and handed over to an inquisitorial examination of a Committee, or Of any other institution, it would be dealing fairly with these people ? Calling them by violent names Nvill not satisfy the 9nestion—they gave informa tion, secretly, .confiding in . the Government— would it be fair to violate this confidence, and turn them out to be huoted.as wild game, and to have all the kennels of sedition and Jacohinism in the country set in full cry after them ? Or, if justice did not forbid the disclosure of those men's names—what would common policy advise ? Sup pose another mysterious conspiracy to bring about II revolution to be set on foot, or this, which is scarcely half stippreSSed, to he resumed ;—sup pose affiliated societies, and secret signs, and oaths of secrecy, to throw concealment over the whole, to recommence the work of revolution in different parts of the country—do the Opposition believe that men will again- disclose all that they know, at the risk of having their names publish ed—their impressions and opinions canvassed by able inquisitors, determined to embarrass and perplex them—and their persons abandoned to the enmity of the most desperate part of the corn. munity—and that, too, after theft having dune 4 the State some service.' , " As to the Indemnity Act, it is not (resigned to afford Ministers protection from the effects of a just responsibility—it is but a proper horn;ge paid to the Constitution, the spirit of which has been trenched upon in one point, and for a mu 'tient, that it may be preserved against the attack of an evil, which it does nos contemplate in its ordinary operations. For its general conserva tion, the particular suspension of a particular pri• yilege %vas resorted to. Laudable, however, as the end was, and necessary as the means for ob taining that end were, yet should we hold our constitutional privileges so sacred, that, for the most obvious benefits, they should not be rendered inactive, without atonement being made to the Constitution—withOwt the Legislature 'lnterfer ing, with theoretical jealousy, to sanction even the most necessary measures for t!,e public safety, Ikhen such measures were extraordinary, or com promised, in practice, any great principle of the Constitution. An ludemnity Act is a re-asserting of the restoration of the Constitution to its ordi nary powers ; it precludes the 'discussion at ab stract principles and arbitrary theories, and, in so doing it consults, in no small degree, the tran quillity and repose of the public." LITERATURE.—We are requested to state, that the following important and highly interesting Works are just published by Mr. COLBU RN, Con duit-street, and may be had of his Agents, Messrs. BELL and BIZADYUTE, Edinburgh, and JOHN CUMMING, Dublin, &c. &e. : I. Memoirs of Benjamin Franklin, written by Himself-2. France, by Lady Morgan, 3d Edition, with Notes, 2 vats.- 3. Captain Colownin's Account of Japan, 2 vols.-4. 1)r. Watkin's Life of R. B. Sheridan, 2 vols. 3r0.-5. Corres pondence of the Hon. Robot Walpole with George Montagne, :,.Esq.—G. Napoleon his own Historian ; Extracts from his Manuscript Memoirs, Gs. 6d.-7. Madame de Start's Memoirs of her nvher, the celebrated M. Necker--13. count de Stendhal's Rome, Naples, Florence iu I&17. OP 'Mt rtomiN cAii4OLic dijgSTioN. FOR. TM SUN. PAlit IX. EDITOIt,--llHunt be forgotten, that the Roman Catholics and Protestant Dissenters have openly declare?! toleration not to be within any stated rule, and that the Legislature_ has no right to grattt it on any conditions whatever. This is almost shying, that King, Lords, and Commons, have nolio,ht to Legislate. It is quarrelling with a benefit, Solicited and received ; or rather throw ing the boon lu ihe face of the benefactor. Under a Popish King this might be unanswerable as to the Dissenters, if they would enlist themselves un der the banners of the Church. As Protestants there would be less to fear, if in power, than front the Roman Catholics. 'The former might eon tend for a Republic, and an unornawented church; the latter for an absolute Monarchy, and a Pope, to the utter exclusion of Protestant heretics ; and to whom, .should they ever have the power, they would, like the Dissenters of old, deny that vet y admittance into trust which they no* ask for, and they would look down with scorer on the then humbled Protestants, and say No! ye are-Cien tiles, think yourselves Well treated that we per- unit you to live ; quit your polluted faith, come within oitr pale, and the Pope will have you in his holy keeping. What say you to this, ye l'ro testants ? Will ye receive such people in your army or navy, or reject them ? What say you, Lord CASTLEREAGH and Mr. CANNING ? Reject, reject, or soon may you repent, repent, •wlieu your Kingdom of Protestants may be lost. None has any real reason to lane►►t the want of . tolerance. Tl►e Roman Catholics enjoy it to its extent, and they only exclude themselves Irma officei of trust by preferring a Pope to a King, and refusing to renounce him ; yet claiming to participate temporal confront, in direct opposition to, if not contempt of, the religion of the country, which they 'are anxious to scree, on account of -its honours, fame, and profit, without the qualifi cations required by law. The Protestant Dis senters, though they ►leride toleration, may occa sionally coalify , but the itoman Catholics cannot, without giving °p their Pope. This they refuse, add like nor bigoted James the Second, whom Louts the Fourteenth called a vooL, in loosing a kingdom for a mass, they forego our offices of trust for a Pope with a muss in his stomach, and bewail their intolerance.. Thus they talk an infinite deal of nothing more than any men! The word toleration is a wholesome substantive, brought into use by themselves The law so called is an act of exemption from penalties imposed against non-cont'ormity. It gives freedom to private conscience, and solves it scruples. StiHit is carped at, as the Roman Catholics carp at the Test Act,' which they equally, but unjustly, call intolerant, and have abused the ever-memo rable Sir IVILLIAM BLACKSTONE, for shewing the contrary, one amiable writer among them excepted, whose refutation is offered hereafter. A certain writer, heated by prejudice, fancying this great Commentator to be an enemy to reformation, at tacked him In terms of irritation. He called him a professed champion of religions intolerance, but disappointment was his reward, and his work re coiled on himself, as false and defamatory, Turning now to an Address of the gentleman premised, to the departed Judge, the greater part of it, though mild and polite, is little more than verbal; as Cult non-conformity is only an offence in t h ose .vho do not comply With the conditions in the Toleration Act. In regard to the conclusion, that protection is establishment, because it is founded thereon, there is a considerable hiatus between a national establishment - With endow ments, and the protected worship of the Roman Catholics and Dissenters without any. Church and State are one and' inseparable, and they pay to the temporalties of the former, in common with Churchmen, upon similar terms ; I)tie if their meeting-houses and chapels were es.tablishments, they would only pay to their own. The tempe rate author of the Address does not approve of the expression, that it is wrong to oppose private to public judgment, and that reviling the ordi nances of the Church is indecent ; but if he be truly understood, he thinks non-conformity im material, and that it is .only indecent to revile the ordinances. He then asks, is confiscation and imprisonment in so doing by words, not severe and intolerant ? Words, in this sense, constitute a misdemeanour, and lead to dangerous actions. Confiscation and imprisonment were severe, and as such rarely indicted ; but they viere not into lerant, and only preventive, unleSs malignant re viling the ordinances class among the virtues of non-cons. in general. Speaking of the Test Act, this much esteemed writer further thinks, that an exclusive right to hold civil offices is not essential to a Church Establishment. .Although the Roman Catholics, as its enemies, were more immediately the Dis3euters excluded tisernscivesi as enemies to epi!,copacy ; nut tire religion of their cot:ntry. It is not bec ause we bad a .National Citurch kfGre the Test Act, that it would not now he endangered by di,Airection. A religious test for civil offices might othereirise be improper, and possibly, more than probably; the permit ting non-cons. to enjoy tire cornmen rights of good subjects, might hot endanger it a second time. After the tyranny of Church and State, under our infatuated CIIARLAS the First; which, by a combination of events, proved the dottmfall of both, the lenity of the Test Act tended to the preservation of the former ; but while the koman Catholics are enemies to them, some bulwark is necessary against t h eit specious pretensions. ligion is less their care (ban when their notes ran much higher. Their hearts are hardened, never to be thawed: Ona set is for the Holy Father, and a despotic government ; the other for a pres byter, and a republic ; but as mankind have ever ran from good to had, and from bad to worse, a Church and State have arisen from themselves, in civil Convention, to balance their ways, abridge their transgressions, and hold the scales of justice between them. Those of our own country are best formed for the security of life and liberty, property and prosperity, throughout the world ! in the words of a late Dissenting Minister, it is better that non-cons. should be excluded by the Test Act than otherwise, as their admission might change their principles, cirit and Peligiaas, in favour of Church and State, to the happy annihilation of ,their present sour and senseless tenets. TERR.S FMCS. FRANCE. AtrrilEync LETTER FROM PARTS, DATED THR 7TH INST. Three great things have been done in France since the King's second return :-Ist, The Or donnance of the sth September, in overturning a factious Aristocracy, which dreamt of nothing but its ancient exclusive privileges, of holding all the ofFwes of the State, without contributing a ling to the wants of it, brought back the Govern ment to the true principles of constitutional liber ty, and an equality before the law. 2d, Thy Law OD Elections, which fixed the chat - ter on the firm est basis, that of the interest of the nation. And 3d, the Law - on the Recruiting of, the Army, which secures the national independence, and leaves the highest military rank open to distin . guished merit, in whatever class it may be found. No nation ever presented the example of having, in so short a time, passed such solid constitu tional bases ; and it would be unjust not to state that they have all emanated from the wisdom of the King and the loyalty of his Ministers, no mat ter by what name of contempt we designate theta. We have now the certitude that France will re main tranquil; she resumes her rank amongst nations, and is a weight in the balance of power. She is now, as Europe declared she ought to be, free; she was always powerful, whenever she chose to exert her strength ; but tee trust she will use her freedom with moderation. The Ministry has chosen England for a model in the principal points; but they arc egregiously mistaken if they fstncy that France is in a state to have conferred on her, without danger, the liberty we enjoy. The elements of discord, of revolution, of hatreds, of vengeances, have not yet subsided ; and besides the French, even the best of them, have but very Imperfect ideas of rational liberty ; they cannot conceive the first principles of liberty, that where ever there is a privilege thete is a duty attached to it ; they wish the former, and wish to throw the latter aside. The Law on the Recruiting of the Army has not been submitted to the House of Peers, hut there can be little doubt of the same resvit ; for the Peers will not be less patriotic in 1818 than in 1816, when they saved the State by their firm and generous resistance. But it is not sufficient to have put down a faction which threatened destruc tion to the State ; they must raise an impregnable barrier, which shall secure the throne and the li berties• of the subject from all attacks, whether by the Ultra Royalists, the Ministers, or the Jaco bins. In their hands is the uhituatton, and we hope they will always use it with the wisdom they displayed in rejecting the unconstitution :1 law against the Liberty of the Press, which the Minis try exerted itself so much to cat ry ; and let us hope, too, that if the Ministry have the impu dence to propose thy Concordat, that the Peers will mat k their disapprobation and•indignation in as clear a manner. • They will then sheet the Mi nistry, that it is only strong when it shews itself the friend and defender of the maxims of consti `tutional government; and that whenever it dares, evert in the name of the King, to propose what is either cruel, abnrd, or unconstitutional, that it rs ready to hurl its [blinders against the enemies of the throne and the nation. It is [hos that the Clivfnher of Peers will nitrit well of France and of Europe ; and the Ministry, enlightened, - wiil be led to prnpose nothing t hat has not for its basis the tuitional honour and national liapp:iiess. *** We cannot avoid noticiog the inconsist ency of Qnr Correspondent. in praising the French Ministers in one place, and appaready expecting da;igerous measures from t ell) in another.' O coittt!. t I, e L. L. is i - ec-rlvr . d. T Ile k ri u right zoN liis vnNT coNsjecture ()Ikeev:iCrritly which he fiut ,. eei., . C;P:' We regret the lieeesAitt ler 11; tit' Rlll;toC l .4itt4 ti) 4# I espotitients for the 4,45 t puliemetit of their favours. r For Use likkeedlitgs in the 1-losi7e of Ci . billmoits, anti Litesari m•ellie Last Page.. 7HSATRICAL it.EGITER• PerArined La.,l Night. B de (1. THEATRE time). - "4w Ahydos: Selini, Mr. Kean; Zulttkti; Mrs. Mardyu. " which, The Falts of tlyde.. Faze it,11716, raldi Fazio, Mr. C. Renilile; liiatiCa , Miss 4'• which, Harlequin 11:1CF. OF iTOCKS rll Is MAY ni• r. Ek.VE u'Ci.'.CE. I Bats': Sto-lt • • '92 i Inipirrial Ann. for 45Y .g 3 per Cent. ited.s , C4 8! B(ii4i I onlia stock,. ••• •• • ',,,V, N t• 3 Per Ci•nl. Cuns.6o4g 79i HOg India 111.1 ids ..... .965• ''- .- r 4 per Cents.. ; ins. l' - ' 991;1, Ex.•li. 1:illi Yd... I y'• „„ Irt• 5 pet Cent. N. • Ann.: int.iN 4 i Ditii,,el4. .... its. .' l - iii Rank 1.. Ann..2o I:i-lafis -t 1 i Cuns. tin Acc . u . Unt..•• BClB64‘ imperial 3 per Cent. Ann. 79.1 HIGH WATER. AT LONlit Morning, 18 minutes after 8. I N Ev El e ß n i ii DG igo E;4;faloi;NtiltOesß a ll i p te W r •_.ll‘ THE ' SUN. SaLEM cols incEßk FALSUM AIIDEAT ? LONDON, FRIDAY, FEBIWARY 13, 1818. The QUEEN and the Pi incess ELIZABE TO C nrn to town this day 3t noon, it is s u pposed 1 ° 1.1 , 1' e e 9 plapose of having a furinal i n terview ') the Prince of IlEssu-IlumituttG, the in' telu i " Consort of the Pliticess ELlzAtm . rn: ticr JESTY returns to Windsor o n M on d a y next. We stopped the Press yesterday to annoance arrival of the Paris Papers of Monday last , gave a short paragraph of their contents, ,vbic.',"l however, complized very nearly all that s05 . 1 ( 1 them worth notice. General GRUYERE, " 41° " been confined for some time in the Glu t " ' ° 1 Strasburg!), has been pardoned by the NisG-'ll-y set at liberty. The Congress of Sovereigns' it now said, will assembte in the course of tbe I"°"i c i of May next. The relations between Austria he Bavaria are stated to be more intimate at to presemt period than they have been for t l ' e 16 1 1 thirty years. In the latter kingdom, it is 01:.; there have been several discussions in the e re Council respecting the establishment of ► sentative Constitu• ion. M. Rocca, w hom M 4°" et , de STAEL, before her death, acknowledge d husband, died recently at nieres. -......, IVe insert this day a . Letter from an inteillgeP and well-meaning Correspondent at Paris , i" °r ; der to evince that impartiality with wb icii ‘ i,d shall treat all questions that relate oat On l Y s°l d welfare of the ilritish Emplre, but that " f e‘l 'l other State. O ur own sentimeo's " as ! " di C(' ' f 'll trout those of our Correspondent. ‘ Ve ' ° ' "k 551 Cab l tl gu alarm at the composition of the French and at the condition of the French consist s,Mo" rel When we find that the French Ministry , in a great measure, of ambitioos Jae et' who, as we have before observed, like a t. 0.. that has tasted human blood, have a r ' I t r t . satiable thirst of power ; of men who ha ve r id reedy, or indirectly, been involved in the " c 0 crime of Regicide, and who are endeavourilt4 ► of they say, to raise an army for the 13 101 " i°1 eot France, but which is , more probably iat euded h o the annoyance of Europe; when ere fi ' lti - t td they are anxious to remove from th e C°Ll , ll e that Army which delivered it from 0 " : 10 crable Usurper, restored a rightful N'''"' rcj • t ro his Throne, and has really been the prol c ; ,-e of France, what can we suppose but t" t t '::,:d men wish to bring forth a new Recolution, -.. t o ft' to .rise upon the ruins of all le.itimaic lii ' ll-h t s ' ties ?. And when we fi nd also by the l'ol' ls l'6P :fst that the King of FRANce is obliged to brea.' „e with Revolutionary Characters, what H'9lllst lot e think of the condition in which the L ll4o' o , Monarch is placed ? We say obligee!, f( )1. it is o ii° possible that the King should voluntarilY r-colt with courtesy men upon whom he must ° I° °i ' fl ,oo abhorrence, if he has the common fceliog9 . lo f man nature, and a proper sense of the W l ' to his station. But, however, we shall Conti° on insert the communications of our Corre s r ilde iir ' I because we respect his talents, rely upon I e 5 0( . tegrity, and are Atli) , aware of his opportugic'co, 9g r founding his judgments upon ptrsoual °boi,i lion, and because, which is our primo r Y „ c : l t i °` &ration, ne wish fur the fu?l developt;ol—%ol' TRUTH, and Flre not bigotted to our 00 ' 1 ' 'l o t but willing to afford all possible ill i vireoi (ll ; ‘ , ll '; subject . so •iosere3ling and so ituportg llt 11 . 0 :1J 4 ' general States . interests of this country, and of a ~rte'l --......1,M.M.5.... SIR RICHARD CROFT..--II was currently ren t this day Fa the West Erd of the Town , 1113 'el Genilethan had died suddenly, while in th e °t ol' er' delivering a Lady or Fashion. The lO r o' 1 jll is said, hail been iadisposed sortie fir"' r 10 4 sequence, it is yresioned, of the agitatioo ninni On accont of that National Misforulgec n e avert which, no doubt, he had used his b est o r deavokirs, and which he must natural'} b e 5 pascd to Lave felt with peculiar anxiety. 1